Palin defends Rush Limbaugh

Sarah Palin said Tuesday the reaction in media and political circles that prompted Rush Limbaugh to apologize for calling a law student a “slut” was “the definition of hypocrisy.”

“I think the definition of hypocrisy is for Rush Limbaugh to have been called out, forced to apologize and retract what it is that he said in exercising his First Amendment rights and never is that the same applied to the leftist radicals who say such horrible things about the handicapped, about women, about the defenseless,” Palin told CNN in an interview from Wasilla, Alaska.

“So I think that’s the definition of hypocrisy, and that’s my two cents for you,” she added.

Limbaugh called Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute” on his radio show last week after she testified on Capitol Hill on contraception. Since then, the conservative personality has accused the media of practicing a double standard by not calling out those who have slighted conservatives, including the former governor of Alaska, in the past.

“I’m not going to wait for apologies from the left ever. And you shouldn’t, either. They won’t come. You won’t get apologies from people like Bill Maher or all the other leftists who have said some of the most horrible, despicable things about us, and people like Sarah Palin,” Limbaugh said on his show Monday. “They get rewarded for those despicable things. They get to make movies out of their despicable things and amplify them.”

Last week, Limbaugh demanded that Obama return the $1 million that comedian Bill Maher reportedly donated to the president’s reelection efforts for having previously called Palin “the C-word.”

Late Tuesday, Maher tweeted: “Hate to defend #RushLimbaugh but he apologized, liberals looking bad not accepting. Also hate intimidation by sponsor pullout.”

Palin, who was addressing the Limbaugh controversy for the first time on TV Tuesday, said on her Facebook page earlier in the day, “Pres. Obama says he called Sandra Fluke because of his daughters. For the sake of everyone’s daughter, why doesn’t his super PAC return the $1 million he got from a rabid misogynist?”